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Tom Fuentes dies at 63; longtime O.C. Republican Party leader
Tom Fuentes, whose forceful leadership of the Orange County Republican Party confirmed it as an epicenter of GOP fundraising and political clout, has died. He was 63.
Fuentes died late Friday at his home in Lake Forest, family spokeswoman Kathy...Tags: Republican Party, Ronald Reagan, Politics, Loretta Sanchez, Science and Technology
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Woman in Delta flight scare says she had bedbug bites, not monkeypox
Bedbugs can drive people out of house and home. Turns out they have the power to stop a plane too. A Minnesota woman’s apparent case of bug bites caused a health scare that grounded a Delta Airlines flight at Chicago’s Midway airport after...
Tags: Viral Diseases and Infections, Headaches, Midway, Smallpox , Uganda
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Experimental drug slows progression of multiple sclerosis
An experimental drug called ONO-4641 reduced the number of lesions in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis by as much as 92%, Colorado researchers reported Tuesday. The drug must undergo a larger clinical trial before it can be approved...
Tags: Medical Research, Chemicals, Blood, Immune System, Science and Technology
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The New War on Cancer
It used to be that the cancer doctor’s toolbox contained three essential tools — a scalpel to cut out the disease, chemo to poison it and radiation to zap it.
But today that toolbox is bulging with new and better weapons.
“We’re...Tags: Vaccines, Ronald Reagan, Lung Cancer, Medical Specialization, Genes and Chromosomes
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New Avastin tests add to confusion over use in breast cancer
In November, following an emotional public hearing some months earlier, the Food and Drug Administration withdrew approval for the cancer drug Avastin for patients with metastatic breast cancer — the late-stage, incurable form of the disease. The...Tags: Heart Failure, Heart Attack, Medical Specialization, Biotechnology, Mouth
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Argentine President Cristina Fernandez has cancer
World NowREPORTING FROM MEXICO CITY -- President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner of Argentina has become the latest Latin American leader to face cancer, officials announced Tuesday. Fernandez has thyroid cancer and will be undergo surgery Jan. 4, government... -
Christopher Hitchens dies at 62; engaging, enraging author and essayist
Christopher Hitchens, the engaging and enraging British-American author and essayist whose polemical writings on religion, politics, war and other provocations established him as one of his generation's most robust public intellectuals, has died. He was...Tags: Human Interest, Religious Conflicts, Ceremonies, Wars and Interventions, Diseases and Illnesses
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Pets and your health: the good and the bad
They cuddle and purr. And they shed. They wag their tails and fetch your slippers. And they shed. They never talk back and they never hold a grudge. And they shed.
There are obvious pluses and minuses to living with pets, not only with respect to your...Tags: Blood Pressure Decrease, Cat-scratch disease , Headaches, Symptoms, Stress
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On 'Men of a Certain Age,' questions arise about colon cancer and chemo
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Joe (Ray Romano) and Manfro (Jon Manfrellotti) are good friends who go to a strip club the night before Manfro is scheduled to begin chemotherapy to treat Stage 3 colon cancer. Manfro, whose tumor had spread to his lymph nodes by the time...Tags: Medical Specialization, Biotechnology, TNT (tv network), Ray Romano, Colon
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Manning Marable dies at 60; historian and author of forthcoming Malcolm X biography
Manning Marable, an influential historian whose forthcoming biography of Malcolm X could revise perceptions of the slain civil rights leader, has died only days before the book described as his life's work was to be published. He was 60.
----------------...Tags: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Biography (genre), Diseases and Illnesses, Human Body, FBI
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'House' recap: A cock and bull story
Show TrackerMartha Masters bends then breaks the rules to save the life of a young girl....
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